Excoriated tongue

  • Godart, Thomas
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Excoriated tongue. St Bartholomew's Hospital Archives & Museum. Attribution 4.0 International (CC BY 4.0). Source: Wellcome Collection.

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Watercolour drawing of a raw and excoriated tongue in a young man, 17 years of age. The fungiform papillae were large and prominent while the filiform papillae of the raw area were less prominent than usual. The cause of the condition was not clear. The patient did not smoke or drink, and there was no history of dyspepsia; possibly it might have been due to "sucking the tongue." Out-patient Department, March 1883.

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